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George Pratt (other)
George Pratt may refer to: Arts and sciences * George Pratt (artist) (born 1960), American painter and graphic novelist * George Pratt (missionary) (1817–1894), author of the first Samoan language grammar and dictionary * George Dupont Pratt (1869–1935), environmentalist * George Pratt (1935-2017), musical academic (Keele, Huddersfield), member of The Master Singers Politics and law * George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (1799–1866), British peer and Tory politician * George W. Pratt (1830–1862), New York state senator, and Union Army colonel * George Pratt (Connecticut politician) (1832–1875), American lawyer and politician * George White Pratt (1840–1899), Wisconsin state senator and assemblyman * George C. Pratt (born 1928), U.S. federal appellate judge * George C. Pratt (Wisconsin pioneer) (1811–1895), Wisconsin state senator Characters * George Pratt, a character in Philip Van Doren Stern's short story '' The Greatest Gift'' * George Pratt, a character in the John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pratt (artist)
George Pratt (born October 13, 1960) is an American painter and illustrator known for his work in the comic book field. Biography In 1980, at the age of 19, George Pratt left his native Beaumont, Texas, and moved to New York City to study drawing and painting at the Pratt Institute. Comics Pratt's first published comics work was for Marvel Comics' ''Epic Illustrated'' #20 (1983). Since then, his work has appeared in '' Heavy Metal'', ''Eagle'', and many other publications. He has also inked other artists' work and created painted covers for DC Comics. In 1990, DC published Pratt's first graphic novel, '' Enemy Ace: War Idyll'', which was nominated for both the Eisner Award and the Harvey Award. ''Enemy Ace: War Idyll'' has been translated into nine languages and at one point was on the required reading list at West Point. The book won the France Info Award for Best Foreign Language Graphic Novel, and the British Speakeasy Award for Best Foreign Language Graphic Novel. Pratt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pratt (missionary)
George Pratt (1817 – 1894) was a missionary with the London Missionary Society who lived in Samoa for forty years from 1839 to 1879, mostly on the island of Savai'i. Pratt was from Portsea, Portsmouth in England. He also served in Niue, the Loyalty Islands and New Guinea. In Samoa, Pratt lived at a mission station in Avao Matautu on the north coast of Savai'i island. First Samoan Bible (1860) and dictionary (1862) Pratt was the first person to document the Samoan language. He authored the first dictionary and grammar of the language, ''A Samoan Dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English; with a Short Grammar of the Samoan Dialect'', published in 1862 by the London Missionary Society's Press in Samoa. Subsequent editions were published in 1876, 1893, and 1911. Reprints have been issued in 1960, 1977, and 1984. In addition, the first Bible in Samoan was mainly the work of Pratt. Indeed, during his "four decades in Samoa ... he worked almost daily on translating th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Dupont Pratt
George Dupont Pratt (August 16, 1869 – January 20, 1935) was an American conservationist, philanthropist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of ancient antiquities. Early life Pratt was born on August 16, 1869, and raised in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, New York, the third son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and his wife Mary Helen Richardson. He was brother to Frederic B. Pratt, Herbert L. Pratt, John Teele Pratt and Harold I. Pratt; and half-brother to Charles Millard Pratt. He graduated from Amherst College in 1893, and "excelled as an athlete". Pratt was a member of the track team, one of Amherst's great teams, who easily won the NEIAA Championship at Worcester, May 28, 1890. In the NEIAA Championship of 1892, he set a new record in the two mile bicycle race. Pratt was also quarterback for the football team. The 1892 team, which he captained, is considered “the greatest football team of which Amherst can boast”. They played thirteen games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Master Singers
The Master Singers were a British vocal group in the 1960s. Comprising four schoolmasters, they specialised in comedic recordings of mundane documents and announcements such as the radio weather forecast and ''the Highway Code'', performed ''a cappella'' as Anglican chant. Two of their records, "Highway Code" and "Weather Forecast", both produced by George Martin, reached the UK singles chart in 1966. History The original setting of the Highway Code in Anglican chant was devised by John Horrex, a teacher at Abingdon School, in the late 1950s. He performed it with various friends at local church and school social events for several years. In 1963, to celebrate the school's tercentenary, Horrex with three other teachers – George Pratt, Geoff Keating and Barry Montague – made a private recording of ''the Highway Code'' in several different styles. A copy of the recording reached broadcaster and humourist Fritz Spiegl, who in turn passed it to the BBC where it was played on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden
George Charles Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden, KG (2 May 1799 – 6 August 1866) was a British peer and Tory politician, styled Viscount Bayham from 1794 to 1812 and Earl of Brecknock in 1812–1840. Pratt's father was John Pratt, Viscount Bayham, eldest son of Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden. His mother was Frances Molesworth, daughter of William Molesworth of Wembury, Devon (the second son of Sir John Molesworth, 4th Baronet). In 1821, Brecknock became Tory Member of Parliament for Ludgershall, then for Bath in 1830 and finally for Dunwich in 1831. He was also a Lord of the Admiralty from 1828 to 1829. On 8 January 1835, he was called to the House of Lords in his father's barony of Camden and was married later that year, on 27 August, to Harriet Murray (1813–1854), the daughter of George Murray, Bishop of Rochester. His wife was later made a Lady of the Bedchamber and they had eleven children. In 1840, Camden inherited his father's titles. He was appointed a Knight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Bush family and the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he is the eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, and was the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard in his twenties. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. He later co-owned the Major League Baseball team Texas Rangers (baseball), Texas Rangers before being elected governor of Texas 1994 Texas gubernatorial election, in 1994. Governorship of George W. Bush, As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the Wind power in Texas, leading producer of wind-generated electricity in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Pratt (Connecticut Politician)
George Pratt (October 12, 1832 – June 4, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician. Pratt was born in East Weymouth, Mass., Oct. 12, 1832. He graduated from Yale College in 1857. After graduation, he taught for a year in Blooming Grove, N.Y., pursuing legal studies at the same time, and then entered the law office of Hon. John T. Wait, in Norwich Town, Conn., and was admitted to the bar in April, 1859. While studying with Wait, his residence was in Salem, Conn, where he had married, July 31, 1858, Miss Sarah V., daughter of Hon Oramel Whittlesey. He was elected to represent the town in the Connecticut General Assembly in 1860, and in the same year removed to Norwich, where he opened a law office, and resided in the practice of his profession until his death In 1864, '65, and '69, he represented Norwich in the General Assembly, and in that capacity was the author of several important measures. Meantime he rose steadily in his profession, and in the city where he was bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George White Pratt
George White Pratt (March 23, 1840January 17, 1899) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He was the 23rd and 28th mayor of Oshkosh and represented the area for one term each in the Wisconsin Senate (1891–1895) and State Assembly (1889). Biography Pratt was born on March 23, 1840, in East Haddam, Connecticut. He moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in 1871, where he "was one of the leading lumber dealers in the state"."Geo. W. Pratt Dead", ''The Centralia Enterprise and Tribune'' (January 21, 1899), p. 6. Career Pratt was elected to the Senate in 1890. He was a member of the Assembly the previous year. Additionally, he was Mayor of Oshkosh and a member of the Winnebago County, Wisconsin, as well as a delegate to the 1884 Democratic National Convention The 1884 Democratic National Convention was held July 8–11, 1884 and chose Governor Grover Cleveland of New York their presidential nominee with the former Governor Thomas A. Hendricks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George C
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest Gift (story)
"The Greatest Gift" is a 1943 short story written by Philip Van Doren Stern, loosely based on the Charles Dickens 1843 novella ''A Christmas Carol'', which became the basis for the film '' It's a Wonderful Life'' (1946). It was self-published as a booklet in 1943 and published as a book in 1944. Plot summary George Pratt, a man who is dissatisfied with his life, contemplates suicide. As he stands on a bridge on Christmas Eve, he is approached by a strange, unpleasantly dressed but well-mannered man with a bag. The man strikes up a conversation, and George tells the man that he wishes he had never been born. The man tells him his wish has been granted and that he was never born. The man tells George he should take the bag with him and pretend to be a door-to-door brush salesman if anyone addresses him. George returns to his town and discovers that no one knows him. His friends have taken different and often worse paths through life due to his absence. His little brother, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Horton
John LaGale Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country, honky tonk, and rockabilly musician during the 1950s. He is best known for a series of history-inspired narrative country saga songs that became international hits. His 1959 single " The Battle of New Orleans" was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award and in 2001 ranked number 333 of the Recording Industry Association of America's " Songs of the Century". His first number-one country song was in 1959, " When It's Springtime in Alaska (It's Forty Below)". Horton had two successes in 1960 with both " Sink the Bismarck" and " North to Alaska", the latter used during the opening credits of the John Wayne film. Horton died in November 1960 at the peak of his fame in a traffic collision, less than two years after his breakthrough. He is a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
